It turns out that maybe having a gentlemen’s agreement for how things should work was a bad idea.
All parts will be manufactured and assembled in the US? Right?
Sounds like a great way to surveil everyone.
I’ve got bad news about your phone.
If by “everyone” you mean the people stupid enough to buy a made-in-China Trump phone.
Oh no a made in china phone. What a horrible thought.
The point is not that there’s anything inherently wrong with a Chinese phone, but that they’re lying by saying it’s designed and manufactured in the USA. It is neither.
Register his own root Certificate Authority as well and this man is well on his way towards global surveillance.
He’s just dangling it out there so one of the competitors buys his “business”. He doesn’t actually want to make anything. It’s another grift in disguise.
o look, more illegal shit. great.
The picture I saw of it looks 100% like the standard practice of rebranding a terrible iPhone-like android device that could only be manufactured in China. Just take a look at “luxury” phones of the early 2020s. Absolutely 100% a scam by idiots for idiots.
Mkbhd: Escobar Phone https://youtu.be/O8FJSjy3bXA
Another article tracked down the phone and it’s just a Tmobile REVVL in a different case. They pointed out that you can buy one for $169 while Trump is selling his for $500-$600.
I’m sure it will ‘compete’ in the same way as all his other failed businesses.
See, here’s the thing when you’re the President. You can just have your FCC chair shut them down. You can actively quash literally any boundaries to being a monopoly, and nobody can do anything about it (from a legal or regulatory standpoint).
If he actually launches a Trump phone service, it’s going to be a MVNO that just piggy backs off the main operators’ infrastructure. It’s not like he or his idiot sons are going to buy spectrum and build towers.
He wouldn’t really be competing with T-Mobile, Verizon, or AT&T. He’d be competing with Boost Mobile and companies like that.
You’re missing the point. The admin has full control over spectrum licensing. This means Trump could easily have the FCC just revoke all other spectrum licenses for cellphone comms, and just forcibly seize those towers. Don’t look at it like it’s going to operate like a corporation, because I promise you it won’t.
Wasn’t Starlink experimenting with phone calls? Could be a deal with Elon.
Yeah, but I doubt they’re close to having the capacity to offer full 5G service like a traditional carrier. I have T-Mobile (Deutsche Telekom‘s US subsidiary) and they have a deal with Starlink but it’s (a) in beta and (b) limited in what you can do. Unless things have changed, even when it launches, it’ll be just LTE text and voice and you need a pretty modern phone.
So, it’s not like a drop in replacement for a land-based plan where you get internet and stuff. Plus, Trump and his kids aren’t going to do any of the hard work. Even before his presidency, “Trump” was just a licensing brand and now it’s a pretty shitty brand. It’s not like the family was running Trump Steaks and packing boxes for shipment or whatever.
Makes sense.
Maybe they are planning to take back that spectrum they gave to Boost/Dish on a pinky-promise that they’d actually become a competitive network, during the Sprint and T-Mobile antitrust case.
Which would fit with the FCC’s increasingly mob-like behaviour under Trump.
Thank God the swamp is gone.
Compete with them will using their networks, sure.
At this point anyone who buys Trump-branded shit get what’s coming to them. Dude is the most notorious grifter in history.
are you saying all my Trumpcoins, Trump NFTs, degrees from Trump university and deep frozen Trump steaks are worthless
Just drink some Popov grade Trump Vodka at one of his many totally not bankrupt casinos to take your mind off of it.
I wonder if he’ll use Starlink…
I just imagine he has a giant carnival wheel that’s marked with all sorts of reprehensible things to do and he just spins it whenever he’s bored and proceeds to executive order whatever he lands on
Competitors severely penalized in 3…2…
The great wireless firewall of America.
Hello??
